And what’s a better system @Maw ?

school is supposed to teach people how to think and yet nowadays it is just indoctrination

My main point is: People should define what they mean when they say "hurdur socialism bad!" better.

No better system, but there are better ways to implement certain things. Some things need regulation and the like.

@LotheronPrime I.e. teaching what to think instead of how

safety nets are good

Pinko

@Grant, the US has no such thing; it is 'neo-capitalism' where the interest rate is artifically held low and people HOARD capital rather than if they do nothing, they LOSE capital

do you think elon musk is hoarding money? Or really anyone on wallstreet?

Bring back the monarchy

They're investors

democracy was a lie

They invest capital

minarchy

Elon is just one dude though

@Grant, the mOMENT you manipulate the interest rate, you have underminded the market mechanism

US stock market cap is currently 137% of GDP, so yeah there's definitely significant investment in the economy

To be honest US should do the reasonable thing and become vassal to the Nordic Council.

100% free market is bad though too

lol

@Grant, it doesn't mean that 'investors' or 'capitalist' cannot exist in the broken system; but the system as a whole doesn't fuction as capitalism SHOULD

Piss off @Omsomething

Most people in the 1% have a large, large amount of money sitting around and not circulating. Now, I'm not sure how you'd solve that in any sort of reasonable way, but that's for economists to really sit down and think about.

it's actually quite hard to spend a ton of money

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Nah.

do you have sources? @Maw

There are many instances where you're making way more than you could ever actually reasonably spend.

see busters millions

100% free market, regardless of its success, will never be implemented, which is pitfall of republics which I solemnly accept.

@Maw even if their money is stored in a bank, the bank is using it to earn interest. It's never really "just sitting there" unless they've got piles of gold or cash

@Grant, the MAIN debating point or critque of capitalism is that it fails to help the lower classes; but that is because of the rich MANIPULATE the system

Fucking leftist pigs

$7

lol

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a thousand times this

and surprisingly a lot of it is not in "savings"

Doesn't Bezos have like a hundred billion dollars now do you know how impossible that would be to spend

its in bonds

@M4Gunner BUT MUH INHERIENCE IS AN ILLEGAL FORM OF WEALTH

and things that do circulate